The LILAC Stories project, which was launched at LILAC 2023 in Cambridge, has now published a full report of the research, including a literature review of current research on conference impact, the methodology of the project, and the full results and recommendations from the project’s Principal Investigator, Jess Haigh. The report is available through the […]
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At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write about something they might do after the conference. At a conference with three keynotes, 41 parallel sessions,
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At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write about something they might do after the conference. At a conference with three keynotes, 41 parallel sessions,
Collective Reflections on LILAC 2025: Knowledge and Inspiration Read More »
The Information Literacy Group and the LILAC committee were devastated to hear of the passing of our friend and colleague, Elaine, earlier this month. Elaine joined ILG in 2015, acting as the group Treasurer and also serving on the LILAC Committee. She had been convinced to join ILG by Rosie Jones, who knew Elaine’s talent,
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Thanks to Heather Lincoln, Victoria Rees, Eleanor Roberts, Tatiana Usova and Anonymous contributors for this blog post. At the closing session of LILAC 2025, held at Cardiff University, delegates were invited to reflect on their experience of the conference. They were asked to write about what surprised them, made them feel something, or to write
Collective Reflections on LILAC 2025: Community, Connections and Collaborations Read More »
Thank you to Stéphane Goldstein, our MILA and outreach representative, for this blog post. A coalition of information and education organizations [1], including the CILIP Information Literacy Group, has issued an urgent call for media and information literacy (MIL) to become a mandatory part of England’s school curriculum, warning that young people are being left unprepared
Media & information literacy and the school curriculum: a call to action Read More »
Our Health Sector representative Katie Smith, reflects on the recent webinar ‘Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians’ with Neena Shukla Morris. Have you ever delivered training and felt like an imposter? Or you love the teaching part of your job but you’ve not received any training in how to do it? The HLG
Webinar review – Think like a teacher: Pedagogical skills for librarians Read More »
Are you a new professional or student who is interested in information literacy? Would you like to become more involved with the work of the Information Literacy Group and meet other new professionals? If so, please consider applying for the ILG New Professional Committee! The New Professionals Committee has been running since 2021, and has
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The Annual General Meeting of the CILIP Information Literacy Group (ILG) will take place online on Wednesday 21st May at 12.00pm-1.30pm using Teams. As an added bonus this year we are including presentations from two of our LILAC 2025 speakers, for our members who weren’t able to attend LILAC (or just couldn’t get to all
We have recently updates our Search Smarter guides, and as they were so popular at LILAC, we wanted to make sure that everyone has the opportunity to share and benefit from them. As such, we have uploaded the PDFs to each guide here, all licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. We hope
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